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With the advent of the graphical desktop environment, periodically, users need to relocate objects on the desktop. More importantly, users may need only particular documents and objects on their desktops depending on the activities they are performing for a given day.

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Automatic Desktop Manipulation Based on Calendar Events

With the
advent of the graphical desktop environment,
periodically, users need to relocate objects on the desktop. More
importantly, users may need only particular documents and objects on
their desktops depending on the activities they are performing for a
given day.

This article
describes a mechanism that periodically relocates
objects within a desktop environment based on the user's calendar.
This rearrangement would allow certain objects to be periodically
"uncovered." This makes the
user aware of the obstructed objects.
This mechanism allows the user to associate object locations with
calendar events and multiple desktop arrangements. In addition, the
invention allows the user to associate entire desktop configurations
with calendar events.

This
mechanism moves objects/icons to strategic locations based
on calendar events. The service allows
users to define Free Space
Sectors as available desktop areas for subsequent object relocation.
Upon moving an object, the service would calculate the area of Free
Space regions and determine which objects can be located into the
Free Space regions. Furthermore, Overlay
Regions can be defined by
the service. Overlay Regions are those
regions in which one or more
objects are obstructing the view of other objects. A Monitor Service
detects calendar events for which objects should be added/removed
from the desktop.